MIGORO YOMIGORO SHIRABEGORO だいたい見聞きしたものについての備忘録になります

What makes a terrorist?

Many people implicitly view terrorism in the same way that economists
model crime. People with a low opportunity cost and few legitimate
opportunities are predicted to become involved in property crime. This
model works well in practice. I argue in my book, however, that a
better analogy for terrorism than crime is voting. People who care
about issues tend to vote, even though they tend to have a higher
opportunity cost of their time than nonvoters. Terrorists and the
organisations that dispatch them seek to make a political statement.